- past participle of reconstruct.
- past tense form of reconstruct.
reconstructed
Example Sentences
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Writing in the Yale Law Journal, Cherneff reconstructed the history of In re Turner, an 1867 decision by Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase that helped end the re-enslavement of Black children through involuntary “apprenticeships.”
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
In recent years, a local group of volunteers working under the name Maine’s First Ship reconstructed the Virginia piece by piece using historical materials.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Rather than relying on SpaceX's published specifications, the team reconstructed the rocket's performance by extracting telemetry from publicly available video of its first four integrated flight tests.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026
The researchers then reconstructed the quantum states directly.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 15, 2026
But no Proto-Indo-European word can be reconstructed for “gun,” which uses different roots in different modern Indo-European languages: “gun” in English, “fusil” in French, “ruzhyo” in Russian, and so on.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
